WWE Hall of Famer ‘The Hardcore Legend’ Mick Foley recently remembered his WWE debut where he dislocated his jaw. It was 1986, Foley was Still a newbie who was trying hard to find success. He wrestled as a jobber in his first WWE match.
It was a tag team match where his Tag Team partner was the legendary professional wrestler Les Thornton. Together they battled against the British Bulldogs. Foley was addressed as Jack Foley in this match. Of course, they lost the match against the British Bulldogs. The Dynamite Kid pinned Foley with a Super Back Drop.
Mick Foley Remembers Dislocating His Jaw On His WWE Debut Match
Foley went through a lot of gimmick changes. In the mid 90s, WWE started to push him as a mid card guy. He earned his first recognition in 1998 when he faced the Undertaker inside Hell in a Cell during the king of the Ring pay per view event of the same year.
Foley won a total of three WWE championships all of them were in 1999. All of his reigns were really short but quite memorable. Foley never wrestled regularly after 2000 but in a very short amount of time he left his mark.
Mick Foley recently appeared as a guest on Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions where he remembered his WWE debut and how he dislocated his jaw during this match. He said;
“At a certain point, you can see me start to fire off [punches] on Davey. The worst-looking punches in the world. But I see Tommy start shaking, like, ‘This is offensive to me that he’s trying to pull this.’ My big move, the flying elbow, where I don’t just hit him, I hit him and I spin in the air, and I hear laughter.
“I wasn’t prepared for the laughter and I look up and he hasn’t sold it a bit. Then everything that Tommy did hurt for weeks. Every single thing. He sends me in [to the ropes] and it wasn’t how hard, because I’ve seen other clotheslines that were harder; Stan Hansen, Bradshaw.
“But it was the fact that Tommy followed me in. So just as I’m coming off those ropes here is his bicep hitting me right in the jaw. I didn’t know the injury was a dislocated jaw, but three weeks I couldn’t chew anything. To this day I don’t think I could make my eyes roll up in my head like I think they did. It was just everything he did was 100%.”
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